Iran frees two French nationals from prison, Macron says

Iran has released two French nationals imprisoned there for more than three years, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday, in apparent exchange for an Iranian student who was conditionally freed in October. Cecile Kohler and her partner Jacques Paris, who had been detained since 2022, “are out of the Evin jail and en route to the French Embassy in Tehran”, Macron posted on X. FRANCE 24’s Saeed Azimi reports from Tehran.